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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 57 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I strongly suspect that "modernize" implies "microtransactions"...

[–] Fogle@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

Someone said they misspelled monetize and honestly yeah they're 100% right

[–] Brocon@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"We milked the franchise for all its worth. Time to milk it some more with added nostalgia." Ubisoft, ca. 2024

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

"Right around Black Flag, we decided to basically stop all story development in the franchise. In an unexpected turn of events, all the new games have zero story development and people all prefer the old ones now."

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 32 points 4 months ago

The headline misspelled monetize.

[–] BuckenBerry@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Replacing stealth with microtransactions. Bravo Ubisoft. Bravo.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 11 points 4 months ago

For only 7.99 you can get enough store points to open three Crates of Eden, each of which has a chance to give you four seconds of total invisibility or two silent takedowns!

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Stealthy move indeed.

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ubisoft shit show incoming!

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah at first I was like 'oh interesting'. Then I thought: I'd say the Ezio collection was fine and needs no remake. Then I read they would put the Skull and Bones team on a Black Flag remake and was like 'yeah this is gonna fail, bad'

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If they did a graphical update and just made the free running better, it could work.

I’ve been playing Black Flag and the free running is so frustrating.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

The high/low visibility system from the original is also pretty clunky.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

Interesting strategy after they already advertised their most recent game, Assassin's Creed Mirage, as going back to the roots...

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago

After Ubi's careless addition of microtransactions into games, I stopped buying Ubisoft games. After the whole unaddressed sexual harassment of the staff by executive officers scandal made news, I stopped playing even the Ubisoft games I own.